[R] FW: R encoding question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Xiaobo Gu <guxiaobo1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But locale "Chinese" will use GBK encoding by default, how to use UTF-8
> encoding
>
> I have tried the following, neither of them works.
>
> Sys.setlocale(locale = "zh_CN.UTF-8")
>
> Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE", locale= "zh_CN.UTF-8")
>
>

Try this:

> Sys.setlocale(locale = "Chinese_China")
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic
of China.936"

Although it does not specifically indicate UTF in the output if we now
search for Chinese_China.936 we do find the link below which suggests
that it is a UTF locale:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Table_of_locales






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